St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-14

beer or other spirituous or malt liquors will
be allowed or sold OIL the grounds.
1t is believed that with this state OF things.
ladies, many of whom in st. Paul are lovers
of the game, will attend. Special apart
ments will be reserved on the grand stand
for ladies. with their escorts.
Some talk has been made because Legg.
who had previously signed to play with the
st. Paul team. afterward signed with Osh-
kosh. Manager Barnes has letter from a
man in Oshkosh, who knows the facts in the
case, which says that Legg was not bought
by the Oshkosh team by higher salary.
Legg has family in Oshkosh, and would pre-
fer to make that city headquarters. Legg. so
the letter said, would live up to his con
tract with Barnes, if the latter insisted
This, Barnes says, he shall do. A lctte I
recently received by Barnes from Indianap-
oils, where SOwders now is states that 1T
is dead sure thing that Indianapolis has
the franchise of the st. Louis club in the
National association. A letter from Sow
ders to Barnes also says this is sure thing.
Even if this is not settled fact vet. there
are evidently those in Indianapolis who be-
lieve that it will soon be settled, and men
who will be interested are accordingly Law
ing for players. Some inducements are
being held out to SOwders, but he is stayin @
with the ST. Paul team and saying nothing.
Stockwell, who recently signed as catcher
for ST. Paul, is with Duryea, and the two
are practicing together to be ready for
effective work when the season opens.
Barnes has heard nothing from Sage who
was reported to have gone Oh Southern
trip with the Des Moines club. and he is
expected to show up at the opening of the
season ready to get into a st. Paul uniform
Manager Barnes is getting a collection of
photographs of the team, and proposes to
have some Autographs of the st. Paul
players They will be about two feet in
length, and at the bottom of the card on
which the lithograph is done will be a
schedule of the home games. Barnes says
he will have 10000 of them struck off and
scattered over the city.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
The Cleveland club has adopted a plan in
the matter of scoring that may be worth fol-
lowing by other clubs. Each daily paper will
be allowed desk in an Office to which each
will have key. The Office will be private
with only room for the scorer, and will be To-
Gated on the ground floor of the grand stand,
directly behind the catcher
Manager Foster, of Minneapolis, should
provide competent and accurate official
promptly sent in. This is due the play ers and
is necessary to making up the records.
FaatZ, who caught so successfully for Min
neapois the latter part of last season, will
play with Des Moines this season. He is a
good all-round player and one of the SureSt
batters in the team.
The American association schedule for next
season prescribes that Cleveland will open at
Cincinnati, Brooklyn at Philadelphia Balti-
more at Staten Island and st. Louis with the
Louisvilles.
On the Fourth of July the Bostons will play
in Chicago, as they did last year, the Phia-
delphias will be in Pittsburg, the Washing
tons in Detroits and the New Yorks in Kan
sas City.
rival St. Louis teams. Hudson, of the Browns
accomplished the feat of striking out three
of the Maroons On nine pitched balls.
Shafer, who will play second base for Osh-
kosh, signed with that city because he said
1.-The girls turned out in greater force there
and encouraged fellow"
The uniform of the Minneapolis team has
not been decided upon, but it will probably
be gray and brown, the latter appearing in
stockings and trimmings.
The feat of holding down the clubs to a
single hit was accomplished hundred times
last season by professional pitchers.
Clarkson, of the Chicagos, is training the
Harvard college pitchers,
The st. Louis Browns report FOR duty
March 10.
The VVressders.
j. j. Benjamin, who is to wrestle Col.
Mclaughlin Saturday night at the Wash
ington rink, Minneapolis, for the collar
and-elbow championship, is expected to ar
rive to-day, and then perhaps something
will be known as to his record. There is
vagueness about Benjamin's identity which
should be cleared away. All that is known
of him SO far is that he was defeated by
Mclaughlin some eight years ago, and the
people would like to know what manner of
man he is before they pay their money to
see the match.
LITTLE TIPS.
Jack Carkeek has challenged Acton or
Lewis to wrestle three or five falls, catch-as-
catch-can, for $500 q sde Carkeek is Wis
consin man, raised within few miles of
Lewis home, and it Is the opinion of those
that have seen him work that he can defeat
Lewis; at any rate the ''Strangl er" avo ids
him and cannot be induced to accept chal-
lenge.
Tom Cannon and Prof. William Miller
wrestled for $500 and the Graco-Roman
Championship" at Her Majesty Opera house.
Melbourne, Aus, Dec. Is. Cannon won the
first fall in 81 m and the second in m.
Miller declining to wrestle longer because of
a broken hip.
James Faulkner. the English wrestler and
Duncan c. Ross engaged in catch-as-catch-
C; n match at Cleveland for 5000 side. Ross
won the first bout in 6 N and Faulkner the
next three in 45 S, III 10 and 5 m, 45 S, re-
Spectively.